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what made you so sure Skacel would not get another club?

great. Well until someone does lets get hold of him and develop him into a top top player.

funny, watching McLaggon on Saturday they seeemd very similar indeed - pacey, extremely lightweight, poor touch at times

team full of Saints and Skates Pericard Fuller Salif Diao Andy Faye Andy Griffin

Seijs and Davies. That would have been a terrific partnership. Never a hope of us being able to afford him seeing as we were more than happy to get rid in the first place.

if you've been then its somewhere you can never forget.

he prefers a passing game and we just hoofed.

from the Itchen it looked like a bad foul to me, easily worth a yellow in its right never mind combined with all the other fouls he comitted. Martinez was right to be upset as it was an uncalled for challenge. He was behind the player and lunged at him wraping both legs around the guy. How on earth we got a free kick from it I will never know. I thought Wotton had a very good game and his constant kicking inspired the other Saints players to do the same. Tactically Wotte got it right as Wotton was in the right place time after time in the first half. However I would say that Wotton is so slow and that is why he is fouling all the time. He simply can't get close enough or keep uo so has to hack them.

if he plays like that every week he will be suspended for half the season. it pains me to say to say it but do we have any other options?

slightly different financial status' though. Their chairman cleared their massive debts, ours...

I'm not so sure you can recall season long loans.

thats a logical assessment of the situation. Plus Dyer has at last found some form so lets benefit from that.

true, but we really need fullbacks that don't get beat all hands up by any winger that can dribble or run, and win headers every now and then

I actually thought they missed a trick by not exposing our weakness (poor fullbacks and no wide midfielders) by supplying their wide men more. When they did they took us peices. Scotland was terrific, strong, pacey and a genuine threat. Seijs had a tremendous game to keep him quiet.

they certainly looked before and perhaps he has a better reputation outside SMS

why didn't he play today?

nice. On todays evidence it is Wotte that is looking to create a team of **** kickers.

last game before the window closes - Forest looking for a left sided player and a striker, I think you can bet your bottom dollar Pleat was watching the main target to fill one of those roles. Swansea are not selling players, we certainly are.

for me it was 4-1-3-2 with Surman and Gillett having to cover both central and wide positions. I disagree that Lallana was in the hole, he played CM. ------------------ Davis -------------------- James ----- Saeijs ----- Perry ----- Molyneux ---------------- Wotton -------------------- -------- Gillett -----Lallana ------ Surman ---------- -------- Saganowski -- McGoldrick ----------- In the end it doesn't matter what formation it was it was all about the effectiveness and whilst we were sharp and lively it worked a treat, as we got more tired and then with ten men it was less so.

he certainly added much needed bite to the middle but he is still very very slow, watch how far away he is from his man for the first goal, cumbersome (how he didn't get sent off for the combination of bad tackles is beyond me) and extremely limited in possession - how many hoofs saw posession conceded. I expect his effort as a bare minimum from a CM but I also expect them to have a bit of ability as well. Still having seen Schneiderlin waltz through games in recent times hardly getting his socks dirty it was good to see a few tackles going in.

it was a 4-1-3-2 formation IMO that became 4-3-2 when we went down to ten. Wotton was standing next to the CB's most of the time with Lallana Surman and Gillett playing in front of him.

I thought he was overseas having a medical?

in the end if we need to shave a million or two off the overdraft it will depend who comes in with what offer as to where anyone goes.

the guy came inside and James was easily beaten and then didn't make up the ground to stop the shot. You could say he was at fault but when you are down to ten men you tend to have to cover a lot of ground so I might forgive him. However IMO he is a weak link. He is SO slow its not true. He is also terrible in the air. I don't think he is better than Jemaine Wright. Who plays there if he gets injured Gillett? We badly need a pacey or strong right back.

I think you will find Nigel Doughty has a fair few bob floating about.